mike the mountain

We did it!! And my knee didn’t blow up!! And we set our personal best time ever!!!
Dreamgirl and I did the Edmonton 1/2 marathon (that’s 21.1 Km) in a grand total of 2:11:39. Better than we ever thought we’d be able to do it in. The day was just perfect… perfect [...]

Tomorrow Dreamgirl and I will be running in the Edmonton 1/2 Marathon!! 21.1Km (13.1 miles for you “flat-earth” types) over and around the biggest river valley park in North America.
We’ve been training with The Running Room since April, 5 days a week (when we don’t miss one or two runs), slowly building up our [...]

The coolest video created with 987 Polaroids and no computer compositing you’ll probably ever see:
Process Enacted: by Jordan C. Greenhalgh

I wonder what kind of root beer would taste best in cupcake form… I’ve always loved Dad’s, the stuff they sell at the big Conklin fairs in the giant wooden kegs taste fantastic (probably just some no-name generic cheapo brand, but the whole fairground experience makes everything taste like magic), there used to be a [...]

Sorry about the post flood lately… I haven’t been keeping up with my bloggy-blog in the last few months, but I kept tossing stuff in my “to post” file. The last couple days I’ve been trying to get through it all, and I’m finally caught up.
Of course, this has all been at the expense [...]

Your desktop is probably the one picture you’re going to look at more often than any other during the course of your day. Why not make it an enjoyable view?

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources

via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on Aug 08, 2007

Spicing up your computer desktop or [...]

Working for a small company like ours, I get to flex my marketing-design muscles a little bit once in a while. Having no real skill, I try to keep things as simple and clean looking as possible, blatently copying the successes of others. However, it is good to have a resource for the [...]

I’m trying to stay on top of a few basic tricks with GIMP… hoping to be able to play around a little more once we finally get a decent camera and start really shooting!

GIMP: Intermediate GIMP image editing tutorial

via Lifehacker by Kyle Pott on Aug 03, 2007

Cross platform, open source image editor GIMP [...]

So far I’ve been able to copy and paste every command I’ve needed to enter into the terminal via detailed online tutorials. But it would be nice to actually grasp what the heck I’ve been doing for the last while.
Still not quite 100% with Ubuntu. I tried watching a fullscreen video a couple [...]

I think I’ve posted about this before, but it’s cool enough to get my attention again. I love this idea, and it sounds like a perfect way to chew through some of those classic stories I’ve always meant to read.
I used to always have 2-4 books on the go at any one time; typically [...]